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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

They’re HERE!

ARE THEY IMMIGRANTS WILLING TO BECOME AMERICANS OR INVADERS?

by One Pissed-off Vietnam Vet

Manuscript of the Quran (Koran) dating to the 7th century

(May 4, 3011) — Let me ask you this: When you see a Muslim in the supermarket in her burqa, what do you think? Do you say to yourself, “Now that’s what America is all about. Give me peoples of the world who come here for the American dream, of living in the land of the free, where there’s a common language, where there’s freedom of religion, assembly, speech, where people from around the globe can assimilate and contribute to the common good?”

Or do you think, “There, before my eyes, is the vanguard of an invading army who is bringing a political ideology that is in no way compatible with the Constitution of the United States. What I see is the tip of the iceberg. First there will be a forced “respect” for Islam. There will be separate “prayer rooms” in schools and all public buildings, including bus and train stations and airports.

There will be “footbaths” everywhere. There will be Islamic holidays, and the word “Christmas” will be banned for fear of being disrespectful to a Muslim. All women will be required, at the early stages, to wear headscarves................................

Politics: The month-long cold shoulder that the White House gave Texas' plea for a disaster declaration was bad enough. Now the wildfire-scorched state has been turned down flat. Don't think this isn't about punishment.

Through no fault of its own, Texas has now lost 2.3 million acres of land to a freak weather combination that has ignited 9,000 wildfires across the state well ahead of summer.

At least two people have been killed, 400 homes incinerated, 1,200 miles of agricultural fencing destroyed and nearly 1,000 horses, cattle and sheep left to perish since November.

We would think at least some of its 200 counties would be in line for a routine federal disaster declaration to grant firefighting aid and access to low-interest loans that will help with the rebuilding.

That's what neighboring Oklahoma, with a similar fire situation got, and it's certainly what tornado-ravaged Alabama and other states in the region were deservingly given. Even California's coast, caught in the wake of Japan's March tsunami, got a swift disaster declaration to repair its yacht harbors.
But now we're supposed to believe the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it says Texas doesn't need this particular declaration, that it already has gotten "enough" from feds who dragged the process out for more than a month before making any response.

Coming from a president who once complained to an interviewer about his perception that the state hasn't shown him sufficient gratitude, this isn't surprising.

But statesmanship it is not. Until now, disaster aid has been the least-politicized of any government spending. The U.S. has shown generosity even to its worst enemies — Iran, North Korea and Cuba among them — at times of sudden need.

Reuters White House photographer Jason Reed describes how the president made his speech to a single TV camera, then immediately after finishing, he pretended to speak for the still cameras.

Reed writes: “As President Obama continued his nine-minute address in front of just one main network camera, the photographers were held outside the room by staff and asked to remain completely silent. Once Obama was off the air, we were escorted in front of that teleprompter and the President then re-enacted the walk-out and first 30 seconds of the statement for us.”

That means the photograph that appeared in many newspapers Monday morning of Obama speaking may have been the staged shot, captured after the president spoke. This type of staging has been going on for decades.

This is the cutline transmitted with this AP photo: “President Barack Obama reads his statement to photographers after making a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)”

Even as the Obama administration’s dubious account of the alleged capture and assassination of Obama Bin Laden begins to crumble, and Obama himself backs away from releasing a photo of Osama’s corpse, the establishment media is still doing its best to prop up the hoax that everyone aside from a gaggle of frothing ‘conspiracy theorists’ wholeheartedly believes the circus we have been subjected to since Sunday evening.

In state after state, stunned drivers are pulling into gas stations advertising $4-per-gallon gas. Five states already have record-high gas prices, and another 22 states are within 15 cents of record prices. Economists say that prices may dip to around $3.25 later this year, but that everyone should start getting used to seeing a new digit on gas station price boards.

The U.S. Department of Energy reported late Monday that gasoline prices at the pump averaged $3.96 a gallon nationwide, up a little over 8 cents from a week ago.

"Nationally, gasoline prices have been above $4 for the last week or so," Jamie Webster, a senior manager with PFC Energy, told ABC News. "I would anticipate that staying above $4 a gallon for gasoline, the national average, is probably going to be the case through Memorial Day, and probably a few weeks after that."

CBS anchorman Bob Schieffer says that Donald Trump is a racist. Whoopie Goldberg and her colleague on the View, Joy Behar, concur. MSNBC host Ed Schultz interpreted Mr. Trump's questioning as to how Obama was able to get into Harvard with his alleged poor grades, as a racist remark doubting Obama's intelligence.
The host on Fox's Red Eye, Greg Gutfeld, usually ends his Gregalogue rant with, "and if you don't agree with me you must be a racist." Gutfeld, however is a satirist but these mainstream media pundits are serious.

I have to wonder if they realize how closely they are following Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals." Throwing out the racism charge is their attempt to silence any criticism of President Barack Obama - First Amendment be damned.

Neo-Marxist Alinsky trained his community organizers to create the issues or problems and they "must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities; stir up dissatisfaction and discontent." He recommended doing this by clothing it in moral arguments. Well, what better way to do this than by using the race card to attack and belittle any critics of the left's icon?

The problem is that the mainstream media or MSM is no longer the main source of information for many Americans. Because of the Internet and the ubiquitous video camera, the truth is out there even though some may go to great lengths to cover it up.

Questions about Obama remain and Donald Trump has the right to say out loud what those questions are.

The pundits have the same right to condemn his speech as long as we are still able to hear it. But the racism charge is so outrageous that I wonder if these intellectually challenged analysts even know what that word means. I'm willing to bet that Mr. Trump who originally praised Obama, probably voted for the president (along with 60% of whites) and that reminds me of an email I just received citing this as the greatest quote of the year:

"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you must vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."

Mr. Trump is not an idiot and is probably saying to himself, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." So he's asking the questions that nobody bothered asking in 2008 but which conservatives were insisting held the key to Obama's character. Why is it racist to question how Barack Obama got into one of the hardest to enter universities when he allegedly was not a good student? Surely George W. Bush will forever be regarded by the MSM as the dumbest president ever and for eight long years was vilified by the media and the entertainment industry.

"So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it's called, drop in on George Bush? Bush was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden. Wasn't he, or am I wrong here?," Liberal radio talk show host Mike Malloy said on his show Monday evening.

The Navy SEALs knew their mission was to kill the al Qaeda leader, not take him alive
In the weeks before President Obama ordered Navy SEALs into Pakistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, administration officials weighed using American warplanes to obliterate the terror mastermind's fortified compound from the sky or sending commandos on a high-risk mission to assault the structure from the ground.

BERLIN/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The killing of Osama bin Laden when he was unarmed has raised concerns the United States may have gone too far in acting as policeman, judge and executioner of the world's most wanted man.

Myriad of inconsistencies in alleged raid begin to resemble war propaganda fairytales told about Private Lynch and Pat Tillman
Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.com
Wednesday, May 4, 2011The myriad of inconsistencies that continue to be unearthed in light of the White House’s ever-changing account of the alleged capture and assassination of Osama Bin Laden are beginning to resemble two other war propaganda fables that were presented to the American people as heroic episodes of US military might yet turned out to be nothing less than outright deceptions used to generate contrived pro-war patriotism – the “rescue” of Jessica Lynch and the death of Pat Tillman.................................
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On May 1, 2011, President Obama announced to the world that he had personally shot Osama bin Laden in the head.
Well, not exactly. But it was close.

"I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al-Qaida," he said. "I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden ... I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action ... Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan ..."

It wasn't you. It was Obama. His orders, his intel, his determination and his direction. Are we clear yet?

He said Congress must attach fiscal reforms to legislation increasing the debt ceiling. Hatch also warned his fellow lawmakers what could happen if the fiscal reforms, once enacted, “fall prey to gimmicks, are waived or otherwise undermined.”

“My sense is that the people will come to this Capitol with pitchforks and torches they will be so upset. And they'd be right to do so,” Hatch said.

History shows that fiscal reforms can leave people feeling betrayed and disappointed, when Congress inevitably goes back to its big-spending ways, Hatch said.

For example, he mentioned the pay-go rule, which was supposed to curb deficit spending but ended up costing billions of dollars in additional deficit spending, as Congress found ways to get around the law.

Hatch said that’s just one example of how Congress has responded to calls for spending restraint – and then done an end-run around those restraints.

“This time must be different,” Hatch told the committee in his opening remarks. “This time we must make meaningful and lasting reforms. We must make the fundamental changes to our spending programs that might be tough today, but that will make maintenance of budget discipline easier in the future.

“The fact is, we can’t be having this debate again in another 5 years,” Hatch continued. “We are already nearing a point where it is too late to enact the changes that the markets demand. And failure to act now will have a lasting detrimental impact on families, businesses, and the economy.

“No matter what happens with the debt ceiling, we need to make sure that Congress and the President stick to the fiscal reforms attached to the (debt ceiling) legislation. Both parties must accept responsibility, buckle down, and make the tough decisions, even when it hurts,” Hatch said.

Hatch noted that this is the third time the Obama administration has asked Congress to raise the debt limit. And he pointed to polls showing that the American people believe the problem is too much spending, not too little revenue.

“There is no pulling the wool over the eyes of the people on this issue. There is no spinning the people into thinking that our problem is a lack of revenue. And there is no convincing taxpayers that the solution to out-of-control government spending is giving the government more money to spend.”

As CNSNews.com has reported, some conservatives – Sarah Palin among them – say Congress should refuse to raise the debt limit.

A CBS News/New York Times poll conducted last month showed that 63 percent of Americans oppose raising the debt limit, while only 27 percent support doing so.

The myriad of inconsistencies that continue to be unearthed in light of the White House’s ever-changing account of the alleged capture and assassination of Osama Bin Laden are beginning to resemble two other war propaganda fables that were presented to the American people as heroic episodes of US military might yet turned out to be nothing less than outright deceptions used to generate contrived pro-war patriotism – the “rescue” of Jessica Lynch and the death of Pat Tillman.

Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:04:38 PM by Kaslin
The Obama administration's daring, nighttime attack by commandos who killed Osama bin Laden and four of his aides has dealt al-Qaida terrorists a severe but far from fatal blow.

Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of U.S. special forces delivered the message that we sent to al-Qaida terrorist leaders nearly 10 years ago: that if you attack our country and kill our citizens, we will hunt you down and kill you.
But al-Qaida has long since turned into a global franchise whose cells have perpetrated countless deadly terrorist attacks in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa -- and have attempted similar acts here at home since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Al-Qaida will be seeking to avenge bin Laden's death and it is no doubt plotting even now to attack Americans here and in our military installations around the world. We are on now on higher alert, and for good reason. "Al-Qaida remains a dangerous enemy. Though bin Laden is dead, the war goes on. We must remain vigilant, especially now," former Vice President Dick Cheney warned this week.

But for now, President Obama, his national security team, and U.S. military forces have delivered on President Bush's promise to bring bin Laden to justice, "dead or alive."

The most successful manhunt in U.S. history was the painstaking result of a decade of intelligence work by the CIA, who had to rebuild their almost nonexistent ground intelligence in the Middle East. And they did. Bin Laden's most trusted courier, who was spotted in a white Suzuki by Pakistani agents working for the CIA, eventually led them to bin Laden's compound, just 35 miles from Pakistan's capital.

The well-trained military "special operations" forces that carried out Sunday's raid were born out of the Bush administration's defense reforms championed by former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld.

But while many post-9/11 factors contributed to the administration's mission, it will always be seen as one of the singular successes of Obama's presidency. No one can, nor should, take that away from him.

But will it, in and of itself, improve his sagging job approval polls and help him win a second term?

That is unclear right now. The weak economy continues to remain the dominant issue of this decade and Obama's mishandling of the economy is getting poor marks from a majority of Americans.

Last month's Gallup poll found that "More than half of Americans (55 percent) describe the U.S. economy as being in a recession or depression ... Another 16 percent of Americans say the economy is 'slowing down, and 27 percent believe it is growing."

Last week, the Commerce Department said the economy's growth had slowed significantly in the first three months of this year, falling from 3.1 percent in last year's fourth quarter to 1.8 percent through January, February and March.

At the same time, the number of workers filing for jobless benefits has been rising in recent weeks, inching up to 429,000 last week.

Once bullish economists were lowering their growth forecasts for the coming year as well.

"We've taken our forecast down just a bit, taking into account factors like weaker construction and possibly just a bit less momentum in the economy," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said last week.

Even some of Obama's liberal economic cheerleaders were becoming downright gloomy.

"We're seven million jobs below where we were when the recession began," Klein writes. "The dictionary defines recovery as a 'restoration to a former or better condition.' Our economy isn't anywhere near its former condition, and 1.8 percent GDP growth isn't enough to get us there."

But other major fiscal and economic headwinds continue to batter the Obama economy. Global oil prices are rising to more than $114 a barrel, pushing gasoline prices to over $4 a gallon. The housing industry remains in a depression, with many more foreclosures still to come.

Clearly, Obama's $1 trillion economic stimulus has proven to be an abject failure, ballooning government spending and record debt levels as well. Obama's budget deficit this year is expected to hit $1.6 trillion. And for the first time in modern U.S. history,

Rome, Italy, May 3, 2011 / 04:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Many a revolution is said to have started from the backroom of a bar. The bloggers who gathered May 3 in Scholar’s Lounge Irish Pub in central Rome are hoping for a very similar outcome.

“The real mission of the blogs is to evangelize a world that’s sorely in need of our Blessed Lord, the Truth and the Faith,” says keynote speaker Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV.com.

Around 30 bloggers from all round the globe had gathered for today’s event. Some had been invited to attend yesterday’s Vatican-sponsored blogging conference. Others hadn’t. Despite that, those behind today’s meeting say there’s no rivalry at play.

Barack Obama, the purported master orator, is spending a hundred thousand dollars of our tax money on an outside consultant to help him with his teleprompter skills.

Perhaps last minute coaching is the reason why Sunday night's OBL speech was delayed so long. The hundred grand comes on top of the $624,000 payroll of the White House speechwriting team, so Obama's masterful oratory is costing us close to three quarter of million bucks a year. With that kind of money, Gilbert Gottfried could sound good.

The White House is spending tens of thousands of dollars on a public relations firm headed by Democratic image maker Michael Sheehan - once dubbed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as an "extraordinary media coach" who helped her master the teleprompter.

Mr. Sheehan's firm, Sheehan Associates, could receive more than $100,000 under a current contract and has been providing occasional speech and consulting services to the White House since 2009, federal purchasing records show.

Although Mr. Sheehan has a reputation of helping politicians look good speaking in public, neither his firm nor its White House client has anything to say about the contracting arrangement. Sheehan Associates failed to respond to telephone and email inquiries about the hiring arrangement this week and last, as did the White House press office.

As Dirty Harry said, "A man's gotta know his limitations."

I do give credit to Obama for getting help. But can we please stop witht he praise of his oratorical skills? The man knows how to read a teleprompter (with help), but as many have pointed out, when one his own, he often gets tangled up and ungrammatical.

Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:36:51 AM by Signalman
First let me offer my heartiest congratulations and kudos to our northern neighbors on the almost total obliteration of the liberals in their political offices. May we here in the United States be as fortunate in November, 2012.
I’m sorry, America, but I can’t join in the celebration of Osama bin Laden’s demise. It’s not that I am not happy this villain is dead, it’s just that I don’t want to honor the lies that our disgraceful snippet of a deluded leader is slavering all over anyone foolish enough to listen. He is making it sound as if HE planned and led the troops in the execution of the entire exercise. He also sounds close to claiming credit for it being his idea for several years. On 9/11/01 he was probably out hustling the neighborhoods in his community activist role.
To tell the truth, I have already non-publicly celebrated and congratulated those Special Military Forces that for so many years have been diligently and faithfully using various methods of proven surveillance and intelligence gathering, most likely NOT of Obama’s puny efforts at gathering truthful facts necessary to conducting an efficient and successful coup of capture or disposal of our enemies.
It was sickening to listen to that charlatan usurper in our White House bragging that HE caused this coup to happen. That imposter is not capable of playing with the ultra competent intelligence forces in our military ranks; although, with the watered-down quality of our current governmental intelligence personnel his ineptitude would be right at home.

Canada Free Press Daily Mail

Obama Deserves Little to No CreditBy Jerry McConnellFull StoryFirst let me offer my heartiest congratulations and kudos to our northern neighbors on the almost total obliteration of the liberals in their political offices. May we here in the United States be as fortunate in November, 2012.
I’m sorry, America, but I can’t join in the celebration of Osama bin Laden’s demise. It’s not that I am not happy this villain is dead, it’s just that I don’t want to honor the lies that our disgraceful snippet of a deluded leader is slavering all over anyone foolish enough to listen. He is making it sound as if HE planned and led the troops in the execution of the entire exercise. He also sounds close to claiming credit for it being his idea for several years. On 9/11/01 he was probably out hustling the neighborhoods in his community activist role.

Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a LiberalBy Daniel GreenfieldFull StoryThe man who came into office promising multilateral engagement, no more torture and a civilian justice system for terrorists, now has only accomplishment to his name. A unilateral invasion and assassination based on intelligence gained through enhanced interrogation, carried out by men whom his supporters had once condemned as a secret assassination squad. What a failure Obama is that even the one success to his name is a testament to the failure of his own ideas.
Liberals joyfully proclaimed that the One would redeem America’s reputation. No longer would we torture terrorists, detain them in prison camps and try them with military tribunals. A shining new golden age was here. Two lawyers to every Al-Qaeda terrorist and a national apology for going outside the civilian justice system. Now three years later, the only thing they have to celebrate is that their man trashed every one of their hopes and dreams just to keep his head above water in the polls.

Bin Laden Burial Account Requires Better ExplanationBy Trevor WestraFull Story One of the more peculiar storylines emerging from this week’s news that U.S. Navy Seals successfully killed the elusive Islamic-terrorist figurehead Osama bin Laden at a fortified compound in urban Pakistan was the surprising manner in which U.S. officials allegedly disposed of his remains. While it is certainly understandable that the Obama administration would want to avoid entombing his dead body, thereby allowing his followers a location which they could turn into a mausoleum for generations of al-Qaeda sympathizers, affording bin Laden a full religious funeral complete with body washing and Arabic rites was a questionable move.

Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:16:54 AM by Sub-Driver
Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph; Obama Increasingly Concerned No Good Would Come from It
May 04, 2011 7:07 AM

Rowdy protesters in Tucson have struck again. And this time, it involves riot police.
Those protesters are hell-bent on keeping the district’s shocking, and concerning, Mexican-American studies program as-is. And while they’re causing a ruckus to prove it, there could be a lot more behind the story — mainly, who’s behind the protests.

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According to Shaw, the students are getting support from more then just one academic. While reviewing footage from the April 26 chain-in, he noticed something interesting. According to him, Ward Churchill (the controversial, one-time University of Colorado professor who was fired for his views on 9/11) was spotted supporting the protests:

So what exactly has the protesters upset? The answer may surprise you. As we’ve previously reported, the district isn’t trying to ban the program outright. Instead, it wants to make a controversial history class — that calls for “death to the invaders” and was found to advocate overthrowing the U.S. government — an elective instead of allowing it to substitute for required history credits. That’s it. And the disturbing class would still be available to students.

Just when the media adulation of Barack Obama might have been showing signs of waning, along comes the killing of Osama Bin Laden to drive it to new sycophantic heights. In the genre, it will be hard to outdo the schoolgirl-crushiness of Margaret Carlson.

On today's Morning Joe, Carlson characterized the operation against Osama Bin Laden as the moment when "Professor Obama turned into General Obama and ran this incredible raid."

Despite propaganda generated to convince American voters that Obama is a natural-born citizen, the recently released document lauded by handlers and information manipulators remains unvettable due to its municipal origins, vanquished by the absence of an original 1961, Hospital generated “Certificate of Live Birth” which all Natural born presidential candidates would possess…all except one.

Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under three different Presidents and still works with the Defense Department, shockingly told The Alex Jones Show yesterday that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 and that he was prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job.14 Comments

An overwhelming majority of Americans say elementary school is no place to promote the homosexual lifestyle, and even among liberals there is the strong belief that such lessons should be left outside the door of the classroom, according to a new poll.

The results are from a WND/WENZEL Poll conducted for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.

The White House release of a copy of Barack Obama's long-form Hawaian birth certificate continues to raise more questions – since the name of the president's attending physician differs from previous published reports.

The name on the purported birth certificate lists Dr. David Sinclair as the obstetrician who delivered Obama in 1961.

But reports by the Buffalo News and supposedly confirmed by the hoaxbusting website Snopes.com indicate the name of Obama's birth physician was Dr. Rodney T. West.
Here is an image of what the White House claims is Obama's official, long-form birth certificate, with Sinclair's name listed as the doctor.

(May 3, 2011) — Following a lawsuit filed by Mr. Christopher Strunk against the U.S. State Department which resulted in the release of some of Stanley Ann Dunham’s passport applications and travel records, The Post & Email contacted Mr. Jonathan Rolbin at the State Department, whose cover letter to Strunk had implied that the remainder of her records had been ordered destroyed in the 1980s.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The body of a man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head has been found in an abandoned stone quarry, South Korean police said Wednesday.

Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 6:57:29 AM by Pacothecat
Dershowitz OBL Gut Check: The US Is a Bunch of Hypocrites — We Shot a Man in Cold Blood and That’s a Good Thing But Then Are We a Better Country?

Bret Stephens writing in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday labeled me and people like me who write "right-wing commentary" as "unbecoming" inhalers of "a whiff of sour grapes" during "Obama's Finest Hour" -- the hour that the President gave the green light to kill Osama bin Laden. I am labeled as such because I recognize that notwithstanding the wave of vengeful jubilation that has overtaken America, the media, and the civilized world as they celebrate OBL's death, I remain a critical analyst of the entire Obama presidency and not just someone who is elated over the one and only foreign policy accomplishment of this administration to date (for which George W. Bush is also responsible).

What I find shocking about this major event in US history is the dearth of information emanating from the administration. There is an appearance that no one is running the show and no one really knows what transpired. This has led to utter chaos as the media and individuals randomly attempt to piece together events on their own.

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We know that the US military, acting on intelligence, went into Osama bin Laden's compound in the middle of Pakistan in the cloak of darkness and killed the most wanted man in the world -- and it took ten years to accomplish this feat. Presumably, the soldiers carrying out this mission were wearing video cameras and upon its successful completion, collected forensic evidence to prove and support their claims of success (before dumping OBL's body in the ocean for the purpose of showing the Muslim world how politically correct we Americans can be).